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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

World Wars II and II and the Ideological Connection That Exists Between Them

a part of the WWI time period and inherent in Europe. Also, Fascism was something that was fought ideologically. In order to proce...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

George F. Kennan's Containment, the National Security Council's NSC 68, and the Cold War Policy of the United States

off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

Comparison of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Iliad' by Homer

are not primarily about war. The love element is significantly greater. In exploring Virgils Aeneid, it is perhaps the metamorpho...

Comparative Analysis of Georege Orwell's 1984 and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In four pages this paper of two parts compares Orwell's Winston Smith and Kesey's Randall McMurphy and in the second part 'the boo...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Buddhism and Mencius Concepts of Violence and War

This paper contrasts and compares the Mencius and Buddhist concepts of war, violence, and use of military force. Four sources are...

Mexican Revolution and the Yucatan Caste War

In nine pages this paper compares the Mexican Revolution to the Yucatan Caste War in a consideration of its definitive elements. ...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

Gulf Wars and the Arab andIsraeli Conflict

In addition, the processes of territorial change in the Arab-Israeli conflict must be examined as both a unique case and as a recu...

A Comparison of Two Depictions of WWII

Soldiers of Destruction by Charles Sydnor and How Hitler Lost the War, the film documentary, are compared and contrasted in this t...

Japanese and Chinese Emperors

In nine pages the Japanese and Chinese emperors are contrasted and compared in terms of roles and functions from the middle of the...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

Military Tactical Strategies of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General Ulysses S. Grant

and ancestral place meant everything"1. This limited view of Lees motivation leads to the assumption that Lee was not fully commi...

Journey's End A View of the Conflicts of War by R.C. Sherriff and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

In five pages these works are compared in a consideration of peace and issues of heroism along with war irony and symbolism as ref...

First World War According to Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen

In five pages this paper compares the views of the First World War that are presented in The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy and Dul...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

War As Viewed by David Malouf and Voltaire

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the perspectives on war featured in Fly Away Peter by David Malouf and Candide by ...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

Ancient Greek Mythological Heroes and Episode II of Star Wars

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

War in Literature

In four pages this paper contrast and compares how war is depicted in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vo...